In article m,
Richard Kaplan wrote:
The first time you are solo in IMC you will be REALLY glad you trained this
way. You will have confidence that you can handle any situation. When you
later move up to a more complex panel, the extra equipment will be a bonus
to help you out, not a crutch upon which you rely.

I thought an HSI would make my IFR training too easy, but in fact it
means that all the time you're partial panel you're down to one NAV.
It was a big confidence builder to shoot an approach near the end of
my training where my CFII sneakily retuned my DME, and when I cought
that took away the gyro instruments, and I was able to transition to
flipflopping to get cross radials while flying the LOC and realize I
had higher minimums without DME all while flying the airplane.

--
Ben Jackson

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